Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1064 - 415: Geezer Old Men, Ancestor is Here

In space, a massive star shone in the distance.

The light was dazzling, and halos flickered.

A small shuttle, about fifty meters long and shaped like a water drop, was silently advancing at a speed of fifty meters per second.

Inside the waterdrop shuttle's top cabin, thirteen fully armed individuals were quietly floating face to face.

These thirteen people were Ren Zhong, Yu Chengde, Ma Xiaoling, Bai Feng, Yujin, Song Mu'en, Wang Qiao, Qian Wangshen, Xiao Xingyue, and four new faces.

The shuttle, designed to carry thirteen people, had consumed the efforts of hundreds of millions from Starfire Military Industry, including Qian Wangshen, Ju Qingmeng, and Wen Lei, amounting to a total of 167 time loops.

In these 167 time loops, Ren Zhong tirelessly played the role of a porter 167 times. Each time, he had to memorize vast amounts of data, repeatedly drafting blueprints. He also had to control variables and propose new achievable demands.

These variables included the R&D and manufacturing capabilities of Starfire Military Industry, after all, only two days were available.

Additionally, the variables included the rationality of the design. Under the basic physical rules of the Source Star System, it was impossible to create materials beyond the limits of physical rules. Ren Zhong needed to precisely manage these scales.

Variables also included the status of resources currently available on Source Star. No matter how good the design, it only made sense if the materials could be acquired for realization. Heaven knows how many special material locations and acquisition methods Ren Zhong recorded in these 167 loops to control variables.

In short, after continuous adjustments, and taking 167 resurrections, this waterdrop-shaped shuttle, designed to carry 13 people, had reached the performance limits of a spacecraft that Starfire Military Industry could produce in a short time given the current objective conditions.

But this was just the appetizer. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

In the prior 167 resurrections, the only issue Ren Zhong completely resolved was the shuttle.

Continuing to advance, Ren Zhong made numerous attempts to adjust escort personnel and details related to each person's equipment.

From the selection of personnel, arranging the method of weapon charging, down to the setting of certain sensor parameters in someone's armor components, everything underwent meticulous optimization.

Speaking of escort personnel, the current list of thirteen people did not come easily.

Initially, Ren Zhong set the core selection criteria for escort personnel as combat power priority.

However, after multiple failures, he discovered that the strength of the phantom antagonist seemed limitless. The stronger the accompanying forces, the stronger the phantom antagonist becomes, always precisely suppressing by a thread, and no amount of fine-tuning personnel or changing combat coordination modes was effective.

Unless the liquid metal properties constituting the phantom antagonist's body could be deciphered, no amount of effort was worthwhile, as more people would only end up being crushed like ants one by one.

Ren Zhong realized that while combat power was crucial, strength determined more brute force, and overcoming the wall of sighs embodied by the phantom antagonist required clever tactics.

He changed his mindset—no longer pursuing absolute combat power in personnel selection but instead focusing on functional coordination, allowing for more refined division of labor and adding scientific significance to the combat process.

In the new division of combat, Ren Zhong was responsible for overseeing the situation and issuing commands, promoting overall strategy, providing timely rescue, and charging at appropriate moments.

Everyone else also had their roles.

For instance, Yujin, though only a Seventh Level Gunsmith at this moment, had an extraordinary sense of crisis, able to sometimes detect the phantom antagonist's actions in advance. To harness Yujin's strengths, Starfire Military Industry tailored a combat suit with strong buffering performance and adaptive armor, along with a specially modified ultra-low recoil Level Nine heavy sniper rifle. These equipment allowed Yujin, the Seventh Level Gunsmith, to unleash Level Nine Gunsmith's destructive power. In Yujin's case, Ren Zhong easily broke through the constraints of Source Star's professional system with resources. The fact is, in the high-tech age, the grading of combat power solely determined by human capabilities was inherently flawed.

Also, Bai Feng, who had mastered the Mistletoe ability, was now a Level Eight Armored Soldier, mastering dozens of special armor capabilities. Ren Zhong brought him along for two reasons: firstly, Bai Feng is extremely reliable; secondly, somewhat brutally put, is to maximize the abilities of another Level Nine Armored Soldier within the team, who, upon dying, could allow Bai Feng to continue using his body to achieve advanced power.